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  1. The notion of controlled borders creates more problems than it solves. Look at how wonderful it is in the US where you can become a citizen of another state and the only requirement is packing up your shit and moving there and declaring that you are a citizen of that state. It lets humans rights abuses stand. If everyone considered the world as their home you wouldn't have people fleeing a warlord shithole to another region a few feet away and the people a few feet away could not escape the realities by pretending they only exist on the other side of an imaginary line where it is someone else's problem. Human progress is missing the invisible hand. Primitive.

  2. Yeah, seems milieu control comes cheap at the threat of a few users. You used to have to deploy armies for this shit and run over citizens with tanks. Everything is getting automated.

  3. Re:There's no such country as Kurdistan on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 2

    Google erased Kurdistan?!! We knew it would come to this, however it seems they started with a powerless country and no one will really complain. One by one they are going to erase us all until only the state of Google remains.

  4. Re: each new revelation is increasingly depraved on Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They have a phone app?

  5. Re: He has a point on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but CEOs keep nagging CIOs about being in the cloud so he can tell his other CEO friends his company is in the cloud.

    True. Fucking. Story.

  6. Re: Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Greenplum is dead because they had such horrible performance issues. Pivotal basically stopped development and switched to making Cloud Foundry.

    I work in Greenplum every day and I long for SQL Server.

  7. Re: Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, fuck postgresql and the SQL standard they rode in on. Coming from SQL Server and trying to develop in postgres makes me want to punch someone in the face while I'm choking them out.

    No variables in adhoc queries? Completely fuck that shit.

  8. Re: Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but they just hide in meetings and avoid decisions through. Most businesses treat them as a fall guy.

  9. Re: Wow is Larry ever tired of being wrong? on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "For software development things like the "readers block writers" approach of SQL Server gives you a ton of headaches that just "work out of the box" with Oracles locking model of only writers blocking writers."

    False. SQL Server supports Oracle style locking models and more/better alternatives--out of the box. Oracle is relying on thier locking model for performance and devs have to be cognizant of it. SQL Server default is for maximum data safety. Flip a bit and you have Oracle style lock model.

  10. Re: Got it on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Larry Ellison reminds me of Trump. Living in his own world to the point where whenever he says anything he sounds bat-shit crazy.

  11. Re: Total GARBAGE on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the answer...turning SSDs into WinModems.

  12. Re: With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 2

    Yep. Pure and Nimble already did. They got rich.

  13. Re: With spinning disks, you do not know either on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Quit your bitching and break out a microscope if you really want to know. No one every really got to the root cause of mechanical drive failures either. Most of the "died" because the screws that hold them together lost enough torque to allow the body to warp enough to "fail,".... Click, click, click.

    Never forget watching that video where a guy used a cheap torque driver to "repair" dead drives.

  14. Re: So you mean the free market didn't self-regula on US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Advertising ROI has always been very poor. They have no idea they are getting fleeced and have no way to tell. Senator is correct. There is widespread fraud on the part of Google.

  15. Re: Why do you think slavey to the state is freedo on Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Fascism doesn't give two shits what you call the political spectrum it controls.

  16. Re: Why do you think slavey to the state is freedo on Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the telcos need broken up in any case. They are arms of a fascist order, evidenced by thier willingness to partner with government to curtail basic human rights.

    Consolidated power seeks the power of government to preserve thier advantage while politicians seek the approval of the consolidated power to further themselves.

    Every president does the same things to curry favor with the consolidated powers. That is why nothing changes. No one is enforcing anti merger laws nevermind antitrust.

  17. What is your secret to keep from exploding into laughter? Are you just dead inside at this point?

  18. Re: This pretty much sums it up on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlook client smokes them all.

  19. Re: This pretty much sums it up on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like facsim as well. I think we are on to something.
    âoeOpinion | Be Afraid of Economic âBigness.â(TM) Be Very Afraid.â by Tim Wu https://link.medium.com/EkkYua...

  20. Re: Or they saw a TED talk - and believed it on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    LinkedIn is just a profile service for tracking where your colleagues work and farming connections. The posts are mostly trash but it is certainly nothing to be confused with Facebook. It has some value.

  21. Re: Sounds like Mobil Oil ... on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw "React" and "throw up" and started knodding my head.

  22. Re: Sounds like Mobil Oil ... on Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You are so correct.

    "We spent $100MM on a company that is going to cost us $250MM to unload. What an opportunity!"

    All the employees who have been working on projects to save the company $5MM or $20MM just sigh and bow thier heads.

  23. Oh how adorable. Have you ever met a Windows admin? Why do you think people are flocking to hosted skype? The droves of incompetent Windows admins still left over from yesteryear who cant script infrastructure to save their life, that's why. Nobody can keep anything running on-prem anymore. Microsoft and everyone else has given up.

  24. One day these laypeople are going to realize that their neighborhood software developer or data guy are the ones who have been automating people out of the job. Right now they just aren't making the connection.

  25. Re:This is going to cause confusion on Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way in hell these things are going to survive wal-mart. They are going to cost a hell of a lot more than a few workers. However, they will do a much better job and the customers will not have to see a downtrodden, depressing, nearly homeless wal-mart worker dressed in blue with, bags under their eyes. This marketing good-will is going to serve them in their push to take on Target. Target workers, smoking crazy hot--usually, except for Bob the 70 yr old seasonal worker I met the other day, not hot. I hear Trump is consulting with them on how to spruce up their image with babelicious cashiers and shiny fixtures. Gonna be yuuuuge!